On my 7, I've never used a headphone. I've sometimes used it w/ my Bluetooth speaker, but aside from that, as far as music goes, I've used it in the car, both in Bluetooth and in iPod mode (w/ the car's iPod player).
I don't. Simple reason: I have perfectly good headphones whose only 'drawback' is the aux cable. At home, I do have a good Bluetooth speaker that was gifted to me, but it too has an aux cable just in case the music player doesn't have Bluetooth. In the car, I have a USB port that connects to an iPod player on the navigation system: that's where my Nano lives. The car does have a Bluetooth enabled navigation as well, but I normally connect my phone to that.
In the past, I tried out some wireless headphones, which have a female slot for an aux cable, but those play the radio when not connected to anything, but can sometimes be pretty noisy. I'm not willing to pay much more for Bluetooth headphones.
to buy a 6S while they can still get a phone with a headphone jack. I just bought one today for that exact reason. Tried a 7, kept wanting to listen to music only to remember, wait, I don't have the adapter on me.
Why now, though? The 7 has been out for several months now, and people who didn't already know saw what it doesn't have. They could have snapped up a 6 or even a 5s during that time.
One thing that puzzles me - if this is such a great innovation for the 7, why don't they also do it on the iPads and iPods? Have a common headphone/speaker infrastructure? I recently bought a Nano as well, which they are about to end, and even that doesn't have this.
While I'm not an advocate of those, transgender bathrooms would be lower in cost. Get rid of urinals, have all commodes isolated, and not have any gender specific features, and those would be simpler to make. I've not, however, seen one that allows for more than one person: Starbucks, for instance, just has gender neutral bathrooms to neatly sidestep the issue
I think Mac sales are likely to go up, as problems w/ the new Windows 10 sales model becomes more transparent. Like I'm never gonna switch to an annual subscription for the OS. Also, the number of interesting things that can be done on PCs, as opposed to Macs, seems to be dwindling all the time (not counting web based applications)
I recently upgraded both my iPhone & iPad to models that have 128GB storage, so that I don't have to micro-manage the storage. At this point, no phone or tablet w/ a mere 32GB storage will do: 64GB ought to be the minimum entry level device.
My suspicion: he's helping her cover up the murder of Seth Rich, if he wasn't the one who actually did it. Only that can explain why she continued to pay his account in Pakistan even after she had fired him
How is paying a foreign IT specialist FOUR TIMES the average salary for the profession saving taxpayers money? And no, DC doesn't have the highest cost of living: that's still shared b/w Manhattan and San Francisco
The issue was Carrier jobs going to Mexico, not them being automated. The president did what he could to prevent the former. As far as the latter goes, there is no policy on either side that deals w/ automation. I do think there should be, but it's disingenuous to conflate automation and offshoring
It's not about the time it's been in effect. It's about the effect it has had on businesses, who now make plans in anticipation of those regulations going away. As an analogy, the rise in the stock markets, even though tax reform is yet to happen, is a result of the expectation that it will happen. So that when it does pass, a lot of the effect would have been factored in already into the price. However, if it doesn't happen, one could see the markets tank
Funny thing is that she paid that Paki FOUR TIMES the salary of an IT worker: that guy got $160k/year. Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of offshoring? For that money, she could have hired anyone here at Slashdot who isn't a Bernie or a Trump fan
Can't - Mueller is looking into whether Trump staff spoke to APK as part of the Russia investigations. If APK is hired, McCain, Graham, Rubio & the other 'Islam-is-not-the-enemy-Russia-is' Senators would sink him to the bottom of the Black Sea
True. But compounding this was what was perceived to be his policy - cracking down on H1B visas. As it is, companies have problems w/ the offshore work done, and now, to compound that, if they can't bring in those workers to train them live, it forces them to look within the US. Serves right those Indian companies who mainly focus on hiring Indians, like Tech Mahindra, Syntel, Infosys, et al
There is a whole boatload of executive orders that he signed on a variety of things. Like on Health Care, asking the IRS not to pursue people who hadn't been paying their Obamacare fines. Or an EO requiring that for any new regulation added, 2 had to go (actually, in effect, it's been 1:9 or something). Or the EO allowing the extension of the Keystone & Dakota Access Pipelines, w/ American Steel. Aside from tax cuts, regulations have been a major eyesore for the economy, and it's here that POTUS has had the most effect. Also, his public statements alone have really dented the number of illegal border crossings, and morale at ICE is at an all time high.
Bottom line - everything that the president could do himself, he has done. It's where he's required Congressional support that the ball has dropped, whether it's on Repeal Obamacare or other things. Leftist Activists have done what they can to try and sabotage him via the Judiciary. On the travel ban, their efforts have been set back by the Supreme Court, and on Sanctuary Cities, it's as likely that it'll be approved by the 9th and overturned by SCOTUS. The Congress has its priorities in order - can vote 98-0 for Sanctions on Russia, which is veto proof, but can't repeal Obamacare. The idea that the GOP controls all branches is a myth, as the Senate showed.
He shouldn't have to, but the president needs to, via the RNC, conduct an internal purge of all the rebel senators, and primary the loose cannons, such as Dean Heller, Lindsay Graham, Jeff Flake, Ben Sass, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski... Some of them don't face re-election until 2020 or 2022, so best thing to do is start recall campaigns against them in their states. The problem isn't the 60 votes vs 51: the problem is GOP renegades within his own party. Susan Collins needs to be expelled - she can follow the examples of people like Arlen Spector, Lincoln Chafee, Jim Jeffords, Chuck Hagel & other former RINOs who switched parties to join the Dems.
Carrier manufactures both heaters & air conditioners. The heater jobs were saved, while the Air Conditioners went to Mexico. I forget the numbers, but the bulk of those jobs were saved. There is no way Carrier would pull a fast one, since Trump is willing to wave the existing government contracts & threaten them w/ losing those should they renege on their promises.
better working conditions and pay. So no, you can't have them. See, the people in charge are in it for the long game.
Same goes for the Indians. Once they have stayed anywhere long enough, they have 'experience' to show for it, regardless of whether they've actually achieved anything, and can move. If they've actually achieved anything, they become as expensive as people here.
For Islam, Robert Spencer's books have worked for me, and I've also followed Ali Sina's Faith Freedom, as well as a group called Islam Watch. Haven't followed any books on ISIS or the war - just followed the news there from different sources. For the Syrian civil war, have followed al Bawaba, which is an Arab portal that covers the region. Aside from pretending that Israel is 'Palestine', it is interesting to follow how they analyze intra-Arab or intra-Islamic conflicts
Just out of curiosity, who downloads keyboards or other redundant apps to their devices when there's already something there? If one has an iPhone, why would one download a keyboard from either Microsoft or Google - why not just use Apple's own? Only thing I've ever bothered to get was a Bluetooth keyboard that I could use to type, if I needed to do extensive typing on a phone. Similarly, why would any Apple user use Cortana instead of Siri? Why would any Amazon user use Siri instead of Alexa? If you have an Android, why would you bother downloading Outlook when you already have 2 mail apps? If you are an iPhone user, why would you bother downloading Duo, when you already have FaceTime? As it is, main storage is usually limited, so why fill it up w/ more apps that simply do the same thing as apps you can't easily remove?
From the sound of it, Microsoft's mobile apps are even more useless than the Lumias were. If one is on iOS, there is already things like Pages, Numbers & Keynotes that are pretty adequate. If one is on Android, one can use Google Docs. And this is talking about Microsoft's flagship suite: when one goes to more mundane apps, there's absolutely no reason to go Microsoft. Especially given how they've dropped the Lumias & aborted the Windows Phone platform, for all practical purposes
Your GP post - the only thing I take issue w/ is the use of 'Wahabi'. This is something that spans way beyond that. Both Saudi Arabia & Qatar are Wahabi kingdoms (which is a Hanbali implementation of Islamic jurisprudence). But the others in the Saudi alliance - while Bahrain's al Khalifa family does follow Wahabism, the majority of the population is Shia & follows the Jafari doctrines. UAE follows the Maliki school, while Egypt follows both the Hanafi as well as the Shafii schools. In short, one can't pigeonhole this as an intra-Wahabi fight.
My reading of this - ISIS has beaten everyone in the department of fanaticism, and there are only 2 ways that the Saudis could beat it. One would be to be even more fanatical, but already, during Obama, relations w/ the US were at their worst and Iran had been horning into not just Syria, but into Arabia as well - Bahrain, Yemen and even Saudi Arabia's own Shia minority. Once the Trump administration came in, w/ plans to ally w/ Russia against not just ISIS, but potentially all Sunni Arabs, there was no way the Saudis could go by their own playbook. So when Trump visited Riyadh, they seized the opportunity to form a new alliance against Jihadi ideology - never mind how heretical it sounded - and make the US an 'ally' of theirs once again. And attempting to gain brownie points by not just allowing a direct flight from Riyadh to Jerusalem, but also throwing Qatar & Turkey under the bus.
Also, the only thing I find depressing is CENTCOM being there in Qatar, and therefore, Tillerson trying to mediate b/w Qatar and the other Arabs. The quagmire that the Saudis are in is actually a delight to watch - in Yemen, in Bahrain (where they're doing what they can to prop up the Hanafas), against Qatar vis a vis the blocade, in Syria where their puppets have been decimated, and finally, their own economy which is on the verge of tanking due to both collapsed oil prices as well as having to pay off their citizens. End result: they can no longer afford to finance mosques from Dearborn to Auckland
No, most of those conversions happened after conquest, not during. Like for instance, Iran was first conquered by the caliphs, but conversion to Islam happened mainly in the 9th & 10th centuries under the Samanids & Buyids. In short, discriminatory policies were set up that made Zoroastrians second class citizens to Muslims, and to escape that, the bulk of them converted to Islam. Same story in Syria, Egypt & the rest of North Africa. In the East Indies, after a ruler converted to Islam, he decreed that his subjects had to convert as well, and that's how Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei & Mindanao all became Muslim.
Not very different in Europe today. You have policies that make it hate crimes to protest Muslim immigration into these countries, and neither the Left nor the Right in Europe is willing to tolerate any opposition to that, the former b'cos it's made common cause w/ the Jihad, and the latter b'cos it's scared of being branded racist. Take UK for example. Neither the Tories nor Labour endorse any plans to deport all Muslims out of the UK, despite the fact that ALL the attacks in the UK have been done by Muslims, and that too in the name of allah. So Muslims can keep coming in, and there will come a time when they will not just have mayors like Sadiq Khan, but a majority of city councils and legislators will be Muslim as well. After a certain threshold, it won't be far fetched to declare the UK an Islamic kingdom.
As Kyosuke pointed out, it's historically happened - in countries like Syria, Egypt, Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia, the stans, the Indian sub-continent... And in Europe, in Albania, Bosnia.
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On my 7, I've never used a headphone. I've sometimes used it w/ my Bluetooth speaker, but aside from that, as far as music goes, I've used it in the car, both in Bluetooth and in iPod mode (w/ the car's iPod player).
I don't. Simple reason: I have perfectly good headphones whose only 'drawback' is the aux cable. At home, I do have a good Bluetooth speaker that was gifted to me, but it too has an aux cable just in case the music player doesn't have Bluetooth. In the car, I have a USB port that connects to an iPod player on the navigation system: that's where my Nano lives. The car does have a Bluetooth enabled navigation as well, but I normally connect my phone to that.
In the past, I tried out some wireless headphones, which have a female slot for an aux cable, but those play the radio when not connected to anything, but can sometimes be pretty noisy. I'm not willing to pay much more for Bluetooth headphones.
to buy a 6S while they can still get a phone with a headphone jack. I just bought one today for that exact reason. Tried a 7, kept wanting to listen to music only to remember, wait, I don't have the adapter on me.
Why now, though? The 7 has been out for several months now, and people who didn't already know saw what it doesn't have. They could have snapped up a 6 or even a 5s during that time.
One thing that puzzles me - if this is such a great innovation for the 7, why don't they also do it on the iPads and iPods? Have a common headphone/speaker infrastructure? I recently bought a Nano as well, which they are about to end, and even that doesn't have this.
While I'm not an advocate of those, transgender bathrooms would be lower in cost. Get rid of urinals, have all commodes isolated, and not have any gender specific features, and those would be simpler to make. I've not, however, seen one that allows for more than one person: Starbucks, for instance, just has gender neutral bathrooms to neatly sidestep the issue
I think Mac sales are likely to go up, as problems w/ the new Windows 10 sales model becomes more transparent. Like I'm never gonna switch to an annual subscription for the OS. Also, the number of interesting things that can be done on PCs, as opposed to Macs, seems to be dwindling all the time (not counting web based applications)
I recently upgraded both my iPhone & iPad to models that have 128GB storage, so that I don't have to micro-manage the storage. At this point, no phone or tablet w/ a mere 32GB storage will do: 64GB ought to be the minimum entry level device.
My suspicion: he's helping her cover up the murder of Seth Rich, if he wasn't the one who actually did it. Only that can explain why she continued to pay his account in Pakistan even after she had fired him
How is paying a foreign IT specialist FOUR TIMES the average salary for the profession saving taxpayers money? And no, DC doesn't have the highest cost of living: that's still shared b/w Manhattan and San Francisco
The issue was Carrier jobs going to Mexico, not them being automated. The president did what he could to prevent the former. As far as the latter goes, there is no policy on either side that deals w/ automation. I do think there should be, but it's disingenuous to conflate automation and offshoring
To paraphrase Obama, the 20th century called! They want their meme back!
It's not about the time it's been in effect. It's about the effect it has had on businesses, who now make plans in anticipation of those regulations going away. As an analogy, the rise in the stock markets, even though tax reform is yet to happen, is a result of the expectation that it will happen. So that when it does pass, a lot of the effect would have been factored in already into the price. However, if it doesn't happen, one could see the markets tank
Funny thing is that she paid that Paki FOUR TIMES the salary of an IT worker: that guy got $160k/year. Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of offshoring? For that money, she could have hired anyone here at Slashdot who isn't a Bernie or a Trump fan
Can't - Mueller is looking into whether Trump staff spoke to APK as part of the Russia investigations. If APK is hired, McCain, Graham, Rubio & the other 'Islam-is-not-the-enemy-Russia-is' Senators would sink him to the bottom of the Black Sea
True. But compounding this was what was perceived to be his policy - cracking down on H1B visas. As it is, companies have problems w/ the offshore work done, and now, to compound that, if they can't bring in those workers to train them live, it forces them to look within the US. Serves right those Indian companies who mainly focus on hiring Indians, like Tech Mahindra, Syntel, Infosys, et al
There is a whole boatload of executive orders that he signed on a variety of things. Like on Health Care, asking the IRS not to pursue people who hadn't been paying their Obamacare fines. Or an EO requiring that for any new regulation added, 2 had to go (actually, in effect, it's been 1:9 or something). Or the EO allowing the extension of the Keystone & Dakota Access Pipelines, w/ American Steel. Aside from tax cuts, regulations have been a major eyesore for the economy, and it's here that POTUS has had the most effect. Also, his public statements alone have really dented the number of illegal border crossings, and morale at ICE is at an all time high.
Bottom line - everything that the president could do himself, he has done. It's where he's required Congressional support that the ball has dropped, whether it's on Repeal Obamacare or other things. Leftist Activists have done what they can to try and sabotage him via the Judiciary. On the travel ban, their efforts have been set back by the Supreme Court, and on Sanctuary Cities, it's as likely that it'll be approved by the 9th and overturned by SCOTUS. The Congress has its priorities in order - can vote 98-0 for Sanctions on Russia, which is veto proof, but can't repeal Obamacare. The idea that the GOP controls all branches is a myth, as the Senate showed.
He shouldn't have to, but the president needs to, via the RNC, conduct an internal purge of all the rebel senators, and primary the loose cannons, such as Dean Heller, Lindsay Graham, Jeff Flake, Ben Sass, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski... Some of them don't face re-election until 2020 or 2022, so best thing to do is start recall campaigns against them in their states. The problem isn't the 60 votes vs 51: the problem is GOP renegades within his own party. Susan Collins needs to be expelled - she can follow the examples of people like Arlen Spector, Lincoln Chafee, Jim Jeffords, Chuck Hagel & other former RINOs who switched parties to join the Dems.
Carrier manufactures both heaters & air conditioners. The heater jobs were saved, while the Air Conditioners went to Mexico. I forget the numbers, but the bulk of those jobs were saved. There is no way Carrier would pull a fast one, since Trump is willing to wave the existing government contracts & threaten them w/ losing those should they renege on their promises.
better working conditions and pay. So no, you can't have them. See, the people in charge are in it for the long game.
Same goes for the Indians. Once they have stayed anywhere long enough, they have 'experience' to show for it, regardless of whether they've actually achieved anything, and can move. If they've actually achieved anything, they become as expensive as people here.
From the trend in this story, seems like the needful has been done
On what - on ISIS, or Islam, or the civil war?
For Islam, Robert Spencer's books have worked for me, and I've also followed Ali Sina's Faith Freedom, as well as a group called Islam Watch. Haven't followed any books on ISIS or the war - just followed the news there from different sources. For the Syrian civil war, have followed al Bawaba, which is an Arab portal that covers the region. Aside from pretending that Israel is 'Palestine', it is interesting to follow how they analyze intra-Arab or intra-Islamic conflicts
Just out of curiosity, who downloads keyboards or other redundant apps to their devices when there's already something there? If one has an iPhone, why would one download a keyboard from either Microsoft or Google - why not just use Apple's own? Only thing I've ever bothered to get was a Bluetooth keyboard that I could use to type, if I needed to do extensive typing on a phone. Similarly, why would any Apple user use Cortana instead of Siri? Why would any Amazon user use Siri instead of Alexa? If you have an Android, why would you bother downloading Outlook when you already have 2 mail apps? If you are an iPhone user, why would you bother downloading Duo, when you already have FaceTime? As it is, main storage is usually limited, so why fill it up w/ more apps that simply do the same thing as apps you can't easily remove?
From the sound of it, Microsoft's mobile apps are even more useless than the Lumias were. If one is on iOS, there is already things like Pages, Numbers & Keynotes that are pretty adequate. If one is on Android, one can use Google Docs. And this is talking about Microsoft's flagship suite: when one goes to more mundane apps, there's absolutely no reason to go Microsoft. Especially given how they've dropped the Lumias & aborted the Windows Phone platform, for all practical purposes
Your GP post - the only thing I take issue w/ is the use of 'Wahabi'. This is something that spans way beyond that. Both Saudi Arabia & Qatar are Wahabi kingdoms (which is a Hanbali implementation of Islamic jurisprudence). But the others in the Saudi alliance - while Bahrain's al Khalifa family does follow Wahabism, the majority of the population is Shia & follows the Jafari doctrines. UAE follows the Maliki school, while Egypt follows both the Hanafi as well as the Shafii schools. In short, one can't pigeonhole this as an intra-Wahabi fight.
My reading of this - ISIS has beaten everyone in the department of fanaticism, and there are only 2 ways that the Saudis could beat it. One would be to be even more fanatical, but already, during Obama, relations w/ the US were at their worst and Iran had been horning into not just Syria, but into Arabia as well - Bahrain, Yemen and even Saudi Arabia's own Shia minority. Once the Trump administration came in, w/ plans to ally w/ Russia against not just ISIS, but potentially all Sunni Arabs, there was no way the Saudis could go by their own playbook. So when Trump visited Riyadh, they seized the opportunity to form a new alliance against Jihadi ideology - never mind how heretical it sounded - and make the US an 'ally' of theirs once again. And attempting to gain brownie points by not just allowing a direct flight from Riyadh to Jerusalem, but also throwing Qatar & Turkey under the bus.
Also, the only thing I find depressing is CENTCOM being there in Qatar, and therefore, Tillerson trying to mediate b/w Qatar and the other Arabs. The quagmire that the Saudis are in is actually a delight to watch - in Yemen, in Bahrain (where they're doing what they can to prop up the Hanafas), against Qatar vis a vis the blocade, in Syria where their puppets have been decimated, and finally, their own economy which is on the verge of tanking due to both collapsed oil prices as well as having to pay off their citizens. End result: they can no longer afford to finance mosques from Dearborn to Auckland
They had been friendly even during the Obama years, when you had the most anti-Israel administration in history
No, most of those conversions happened after conquest, not during. Like for instance, Iran was first conquered by the caliphs, but conversion to Islam happened mainly in the 9th & 10th centuries under the Samanids & Buyids. In short, discriminatory policies were set up that made Zoroastrians second class citizens to Muslims, and to escape that, the bulk of them converted to Islam. Same story in Syria, Egypt & the rest of North Africa. In the East Indies, after a ruler converted to Islam, he decreed that his subjects had to convert as well, and that's how Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei & Mindanao all became Muslim.
Not very different in Europe today. You have policies that make it hate crimes to protest Muslim immigration into these countries, and neither the Left nor the Right in Europe is willing to tolerate any opposition to that, the former b'cos it's made common cause w/ the Jihad, and the latter b'cos it's scared of being branded racist. Take UK for example. Neither the Tories nor Labour endorse any plans to deport all Muslims out of the UK, despite the fact that ALL the attacks in the UK have been done by Muslims, and that too in the name of allah. So Muslims can keep coming in, and there will come a time when they will not just have mayors like Sadiq Khan, but a majority of city councils and legislators will be Muslim as well. After a certain threshold, it won't be far fetched to declare the UK an Islamic kingdom.
As Kyosuke pointed out, it's historically happened - in countries like Syria, Egypt, Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia, the stans, the Indian sub-continent... And in Europe, in Albania, Bosnia.
I live here, and have lived in NC, GA and now VA. Haven't noticed any such influence!
I did. Didn't get those options. Whole exercise was a pain. Might have been different due to the file systems and had I owned a Mac, don't know